Official · by Anthropic

Canvas design Claude skill

The Canvas design skill helps an AI assistant create visual art and static designs as PNG or PDF files.

  • Apache-2.0 licence
  • ★ 182,168 on GitHub (whole repository)
  • Verified against its source 19 Oct 2026

What the Canvas design skill does

The assistant can create visual art and static pieces such as posters or designs as .png or .pdf documents, guided by a design philosophy. It can also provide that design philosophy as a separate .md file and add more pages when requested.

What it covers

  • Writes a visual design philosophy as a .md file
  • Expresses the philosophy on a canvas as a single .pdf or .png
  • Creates multi-page .pdf or multiple .png outputs when requested

How to install it

In Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

This plugin also installs: algorithmic-art, brand-guidelines, doc-coauthoring, frontend-design, internal-comms, mcp-builder, skill-creator, slack-gif-creator, theme-factory, web-artifacts-builder, webapp-testing.

Steps change between versions. Check the official instructions before you install.